Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dogs have had historical significance at Harvard, according to Arnold Professor of Science William H. Bossert '59, master of Lowell House. President A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, was often seen walking his dog. Bossert named his previous dog Abbott, in honor of Lowell...
...Feydeau bedroom farce and a rendition of Ibsen's The Master Builder about which even Randall, who directed, can't find anything good to say; in the much improved second season, an intelligent, revisionist reading of The Seagull, a solid (and Tony-nominated) Saint Joan and the George Abbott comedy Three Men on a Horse, with Randall supremely skillful if utterly miscast as a husband...
...wisdom of this rule was proved again last month when my roommate offered me an extra ticket for a Saturday afternoon game in Yankee Stadium. I went, and Jim Abbott tossed a no-hitter. Go figure...
Then came Game Two. The supposed pitching classic: Doc against the Rocket. Well, it was more like Abbott vs. Costello. Gooden was horrible, and Clemens was something less than mediocre. The Sox won a sloppy...
This is baseball the way it ought to be. Nightly sellouts in Toronto and Baltimore; electrifying performances like Jim Abbott's Labor Day weekend no- hitter at Yankee Stadium; devoted fans, dispensing with such frivolities as sleep to catch late-night-TV games from the West Coast; mornings reserved for poring over box scores and analyzing the pitching lines for the crucial upcoming games. The daily drama of the pennant race flows inexorably from its underlying zero-sum logic: a ball club either beats all comers in its seven- team division or sadly packs its equipment bags...